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...making of Chappaqua, along with an inherited $500,000. He refers to the project as a "rehabilitation program," and claims that "any halfway-intelligent spectator will see that it is not favorable to drug addiction." His only previous movie experience came at 21, when he had a brief fling in production at Expert Films, Inc., part of Manhattan's nudie industry (TIME, Oct. 20). That ended when Rooks was arrested for possession of narcotics. Given a three-year suspended sentence, he drifted in and out of odd jobs and a brief marriage, occasionally stealing cash from his father...
Ahmanson had a brief fling at politics when he managed Republican Goodwin Knight's successful campaign for Governor of California...
...always thus. In the turn-of-the-century fling known as la belle epoque, the courtesan was queen and her clients were often kings. In The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in 19th Century France, Author Joanna Richardson selects an all-Second Empire team of les grandes horizontals. Her standards are stringent by definition: "A courtesan is less than a mistress and more than a prostitute. She is less than a mistress because she sells her love for material benefits; she is more than a prostitute because she chooses her lovers...
...bruiser who bulwarks the offensive line, and Linebacker Adrian Young, who intercepted four Notre Dame passes. And there is Quarterback Steve Sogge, a top pro baseball prospect (he batted 400 for the U.S. team that won at last summer's Pan American Games), who could also fling a football 60 yds.-if he got the chance...
...Mingo who threw the Johnny Carson Tonight show into an uproar in 1965. Ames, a deadeye natural athlete who can hit a bull's-eye from 20 paces with a bowie knife, went on the Carson program as a guest. According to the script, he was to fling a tomahawk at an eight-foot-high cardboard cutout of a cowboy; during rehearsal, he hit the target in the heart 19 times straight. On the air, old Mingo took aim, let fly and ripped the cutout right in the crotch. Carson, his crew and the audience broke into a hysterical...